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Indian pipe † 
a pale parasitic plant, Monotropa uniflora, found in compost in damp places.
See also: ghost flower corpse plant
- 1860 The Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe or Monotropa, is a white plant springing up from decayed leaves. . . .
- 1923 It is an Indian pipe . . . an orchid that one rarely finds in these woods. The Micmac Indians call it the Death Plant.
- 1962 It was a palely sprouting parasite called Indian pipe, or corpse plant, which extrudes almost overnight from rotting compost and lives only briefly.
- 1860 The Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe or Monotropa, is a white plant springing up from decayed leaves. . . .